![]() ![]() When the vogue for literary exile had passed, Sylvia Beach stayed in France and endured the Second World War under the Nazi occupation. The shop became the community center for "lost generation" intellectuals from Britain and America, including James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, Stephen Spender, Djuna Barnes, Kay Boyle, Natalie Barney, Mina Loy, Margaret Anderson, and Gertrude Stein, as well as for prominent French writers like Paul Valéry, André Gide, and Paul Claudel. In the 1920s and 1930s, Sylvia Beach owned and ran Shakespeare and Company, a Paris bookshop. Born Nancy Woodbridge Beach in Baltimore, Maryland, on Madied in Paris, France, on Octosecond daughter of Sylvester Woodbridge Beach (an American Presbyterian minister) and Eleanor (Orbison) Beach (who was born in a missionary family in India) educated mainly at home never married companion of Adrienne Monnier no children. Name variations: changed her first name to Sylvia in 1901. American bookshop owner and publisher who was at the center of the American and English literary colony in Paris during the 1920s. ![]()
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